You are reading a single comment by @Rowhan and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@Rowhan
At 6"2, and as a cyclist you're probably looking at a healthy weight anywhere between maybe 70-80kg..
BUT, it all depends. You could be 75kg (spot-on weight according to BMI scale for 6"2), of which 40% fat & 5% muscle which would be pretty unhealthy, or you could be 85kg, 10% of which fat & 20% muscle which would be very healthy.
This is where the BMI scale primarily fails, because the 75kg scenario gives you a big healthy thumbs-up for being the perfect weight for your height without taking in to account diet, body fat, heart rate, muscle percentage and the huge difference in density between muscle and fat. At 85kg it would class you as overweight where-as the likely-hood is you are in very good shape and generally perfectly healthy.
I'll only be using my BMI rating as one of a few guides - there are too many other things to factor in